Two NYC Women Caught Trying To Sneak Drugs Into Marcy Correctional Facility

The Oneida County Correctional Facility has two new inmates who started the weekend as visitors to the Marcy Correctional facility.

State Police say that 62-year old Teresa Cortes of Brooklyn and 20-year old Shanice Perez of the Bronx attempted to smuggle drugs into inmates at the Marcy site.

Cortes allegedly brought twenty units of suboxone into the jail.  Perez is said to have brought in thirty-one grams of marijuana.

Cortes is facing two felony charges of criminal possession and promoting prison contraband.  Perez is facing misdemeanor versions of similar charges.